BLOODY stripped floors i could and will CRY !

[NotAnOtter]

DP has spent all weekend stripping floors
i have looked after 5 kids with a dump of a house and furniture all over the shop
they looked nice the floors UNTIL i waxed them with a 'natural' wax from ronseal and now they look yellow and hideous and i `hate them and dp is fuming with me nd i am snapping at the kids and i cant face going in the rooms cos they look so awful and and and and and

HELP!!! Any one have advice or know how to get me out of theis golden nightmare.......???

please!

Just asked Dh and he said floor paint, as many coats watered down as you want, then varnish.

any pics ucm???

i am worried though as our house is old and floor boards tatty..i was thinking white painted - proper paint not wash - may show up tattyness whereas a WASH would be more forgiving

god thanks ucm!!! dp said that would the varnish take the white edge off the boards though?

i know this is a little late for many of you, but NEVER use Ronseal! Not for a quality piece of flooring - fine for the garden etc, but far too cheap & cheerful. unfortunatley the previous owners of our house put the stuff all over the lovely original stone flooring - guess who now has many hours of knneling on the floor breathing in nitromorse? Ronseal always goes a funny yellow colour & is a bugger to get off )or so the man who came to fix the holes in my kitchen floor told me, before saying he didn't want to do the floor in the lounge cos he hated getting all the ronseal off!)

Sorry no, but as I far as I am concerned, if they are perfect, they would be in a new house. This isn't a new house and therefore the grooves, lumps and all of that are part of it. I personally would paint them, the trick is to do the filling, let that wait for a while to sort out cracks, then paint them. If you ever get fucked off with the colour and I would advise against anything other than a pale one, get carpet, job done

Oh NotanOtter I am having the same dilemma - whether to go for a full on white paint (will probably chip, may highlight the cr*ppiness of our floorboards, but might be easier to mop clean) versus a limewash effect (scandi look, quite chic, may conceal floorboards but could stain).

Any ideas for other treatments for floorboards?

Yeah - take your point about the wonkiness being part of the charm of an old house, but we have an area right in the middle of our kitchen where a pipe has obviously been laid below the floorboards and an appalling botch job has been done.

Scroll down here to OSMO Polyx Oil White Foundation (from Cappucino's original link) - sounds like what both of you are after

oh my god wendy !!!!thanks SO much for that ! its otter by the way

you know your creator is one of my heroines btw ?

Hello, Latin otter! Glad it's what you want!

Yep, you have mentioned Posy before - she is brill, isn't she?

i would love her to bring back that weekly strip in the guardian or somesuch

i desparatly wanted a baby posy for years but was not blessed and ended up with a Mosy instead

might google her and try to get a book and frame some pages - i even love the way her kids look - soooooo cute!

anyway enough of this - thanks again for floor advice

must bookmark that stuff!

Oooh clever you Wendyweber!

ISnt she!!!!

The paint that you would use these days is a flexible one I believe so wouldn't move.

But, you have to fill the cracks properly or it will look shit.

The best way is to use flexible filler.

oh i see - thanks for that ucm -will have to work out what look i want!

Now while we are on the subject - can you realistically do bathroom floorboards in paint? I do see gorgeous magazine spreads of white painted floor boards with roll top baths and suchlike, but wonder whether it is possible / practical / hygenic etc especially with splashy babies kicking water all over the place when you are washing encrusted butternut squash puree off them three times a day.

I would have thought that paint + varnish (or paint + oil) would be a brilliant bathroom flooring, as long as the boards were in reasonably good nick and didn't have sodding great gaps in them allowing gale force draughts through like ours

i have varnished floor boards i need to revarnish.

what can i fill gaps in between boards with - sick of crumbs going down!

The trick is in the filling, you have to fill, wait, then fill again possibly and then when you want to paint, obviously use an oil based one I would assume but I used to mop this bedroom floor.

You need sawdust Pec. Your local timberyard will sort it.

You can either make a gluey paste with sawdust, or get slender triangular scraps of wood which you push into the gaps until they are flush with the top (easier said than done...)

Then you mix the sawdust with flexi filler and done.

this thread is fab ....i NEED you girls around more often!

Wendy Polyx Oil is more expensive than Ronseal, yes

which is a good thing

and it is nothing compared with the cost of stripping and faffing about

Ok. Sooooo do I just go to a builders merchant and ask for a bag of sawdust?